Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-02-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

nuONu COi4oSlOI VI y AlbldIys III OzS
b. G.
"A single sale of go tons of shelled
peanuts was made in Petersburg, Va,
j few days ago.
The pay of doctors in China is from
fve to ten cents a visit, and they are
kept exceedingly busy.
The Philadelphia library is the DID,
est in the United State. 1t was founded
a century and half ago.
An Amador county, Cal, mar has
applied for patent on process for
making butter Jy boiling the cream.
-TEe first book printed IN England
was by CaxtCn II 1474 It's title is
The game and playe Of the ehesse."
AT John" party in Pennsylvania
every son Of man named John was given
a plate of cake AID dish OF ice cream,
scot free.
-Breyity as the means Of expressive
statement Is illustrated in the following
teTse epitaph: "Die1 in thin shoes,
January, 1899"
There is a house in Norfolk, Conn,
on which there has been a S50mOrtgage
for 81 years, and which interest has
been paid annually.
1t has never happened in the history
Of this country that more than four ex-
Presidents were alive, and these not for
long at the same time.
"A woodworking machine at Win
chendon, Mass, has made a shaving
forty-twO inches wide, several feet long
and Of uniform, thickness.
Among the orange trees Of Yer
sailles IS one mOre than four centuries
Old, which was planted by Eleanor OF
Castillo, queen of Charles III.
Thieves i'll Rio de Janeiro have
clicked the pockets or several police cap
tains who were on duty. not to speak of
robbing sundry police stations.
Telephone conversations, a st.
Louis circuit court decides, are admis-
ble as evidence in court, even when the
speakers voice is not recognized.
Bees have a strong apathy to dark
coiored objects, and man with black
plug hat rarely gets stung, the bees de.
voting their attention to the hat.
Joseph Opperman, of Galveston,
Texas, 20 years Of age, committed sui
eide recently, by taking rat poison. II
is said that lie was in love with a young
lady whom his father married a short
time before.
The Sam Jones revival in BaIti-
more was carried or at an expense of
a 1875. The collections exceeded the
share OF the money was 8, 500, out of
which lie paid his assis. ant.
The Largest Iauds0Idsrs in The
| United Kingdom are the Duke or Suth-
erland, the Duke Of Hamilton, Earl OF
Dunraven and the Marquis OF Tweed
dale. The latter owns a tract exceed
Ing , 800 square miles in extent.
Two Germans, four Seandinavians,
four Poles and two Irisimen 10 every
one American live in the Fourteenth
ward of Chicago, where the population
IS stated at $4,000, with only 3,S74, or
about 4 per cent. Americans.
"A lady in London, Ontario. has a
Marechal Mel rose tree on one side of
which the roses are crimson and on the
other lily white. Some Of those on the
centre stock are divided in color, being
half crimson and white.
The sharpest torments are said to be
those caused by trouble which never
comes.
The empress of China nas selected
thirty. six pretty girls Of high rank 70
train them TO be empresses and waiting
fIhAEa hR To h. "
to the higher career are classified rs
two dabs'' in req ink characters, and
the others as lone dab.
Gail Hamilton viyid,y describes
how Honolulu women walk out in the
ram. Her escort usually carries her
her dress and her shoes, while
she wears simply a shawl and hat
with rel and white roses.
A theatre IN New York las
ladies cloak room" where women can
eaye their hats before going into the
theatre. The first night the plan was
RED nearly every lady in tie lower part
yf the house appeared without bat.
"A gold medal has been awarded by
he French Minister Of the Interior to
| workman Of the Theatre FrancaIs, for
his act Of devOteduess in allowing blood
% be taken from HIN 10 less than seven
lines for the purpose Of TRANSMISSION.
"A ''mystic brotherhood, " composed
1f 20 Burlington, y. j., lads, aged be.
.ween and Is years, who had been
.aught by sensational! New York pub
Ication to regard burglary rs romantic
md hilarious paStime, has Ceen discOv-
cred and broken up.
"A stableman, who saw 4 horse stray
% and fall upon a railroad trestIe bridge
)n the outskirts of New York, few
lays ago, saved an approaching express
rom disaster By promptly pg.llng of
his red-1annel shirt and signalling Ne
engineer with il.
"A Piute medicine man at Round
Valley, Nevada, down in the Inyo section
having forfeited his life the other day
ly losing his third patient, was, under
he good old common law of the tribe,
aiken out and killed by heating out his
1rains with clubs and stones.
An Alameda, Cal, man, who would
lot trust to the knife alone to end his
existence, first turned the gas in his
'Oom on full head, then cut his throat
Ind finished up by putting two bullet
wounds in his head. At last accounts
t seemed likely his attempt at suicide
would be unsuccessful.
William Henry, a somewhat noted
character of Troy, y. Y, and the father
If "a children by two wives, committed
suicide in GreenbuSh lately by cutting
lis throat with a razor lie had threat
med for months to kill himself, and
Ong time ago he wrote out minute d.
.ections for his interment. He was
lbout 70 years old.
To live is to act energetically. Life
S battle to be fought val;antly. In
'plred by high and honorable resolve, a
nan must stani TO his post, and die
here if need be. Like the old Danish
nero, his determination should be "to
lare nObly. To viii strongly. and never